S. Mehdi Seyedi received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Power Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. He received his M.S degree in Electrical Engineering in Power Electronics and Electrical Machine Design from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2015. He was an electromagnetic expert in the R & D department of MAPNA Generator and Wind Turbine Co. Tehran, Iran, since 2016 till 2021. He joined the EMPE lab in Spring 2021 as a PhD student. His research interests include electrical machine design and control drives.

Logan Smith received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in December 2017 and Master of Business Administration in May 2019 from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. He then worked at CNS Pantex for a year as a Mechanical Engineer. He joined the EMPE lab in June 2020. His research focus will be on high gear ratio magnetically geared machines and motor drives.

Guanhua Tao received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, Texas, in December 2022. He joined the EMPE lab as an Electrical Engineering PhD student in December 2022. His research interests include the design and control of magnetic gears and magnetically geared machines, as well as the design and control of AC link power converters.

Stephen Hurt received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2023. He joined the EMPE lab in Spring 2024 as a PhD student. Stephen’s interests include axial flux and rare earth free motors, sensorless control, fault tolerant operation, and wireless power transfer.

Kofi Frimpong received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in May 2024. He joined the EMPE lab in Spring of 2025 as a PhD student. He worked as an Electrical Subsystems engineer at Boeing for 2 years. His research interests include fine element analysis of magnetic gears, motor control, wireless power transfer, and motor drives.